Price on respec with gold leveling

Hi GGG, I want to suggest if you can reduce the cost of gold to respect passive points, gold is very scarce leveling, and I find it very expensive to respect a single point at low lvls. More than anything, it is a game that has just started, there is not much experience in which points to use, there are people who are going to make mistakes using the points.

Seconded.

Either make it stupid cheap until ascenscion or level 20 at the least.

It should just be cheap in the campaign in general.

When you are talking about not wanting players to feel like the way to beat something is to respec, that is not something a player will think of unless they are not enjoying their skill at all. Which would harken to a design problem with the skill, or a problem with the player's choice to begin with.

Would you rather a player switched skills because they don't like it, or quit the game because their skill sucks and they can't change it?

When you are talking about respec strats saving time for racers, they would have to save more time in a single fight/ area than respeccing takes them. It isn't even a viable strategy, in most cases.

Would rather GGG worry less about forcing people to stick to one skill/ tree to make us feel "impact of our choices". Just let us have a good time in the campaign, which means being able to respec with no worries before we get to endgame.

It was such a great addition to have in PoE1 Settlers, it's very sad you decided to dial it back from that.

Respecing should start cheap and scale up to a cap.

Not sure what gold generation is going to look like once you start mapping all the time, but seeing how it's the only resource you cannot buy and have to actively farm yourself, it shouldn't cost an arm and a leg to respec.

I'd rather not have to restart a character like in PoE1 just because I bricked something.

I was going to respec my ascendancy points, only to find out that the few levels I got while getting more gold jumped the cost by 2k/point. That's crazy.

It shouldn't be cheap because of early access. It should just be cheap in general. Making respeccing prohibitively expensive makes people not want to experiment with their builds, and makes them reliant on build guides, which is the problem we have in PoE1. New players come in, they try to play without a guide, they brick their build and they have to start over. Many quit the game because this is such a bad experience.

It already costs more than 200 gold per passive point at level 15. This should be lowered by about 80% in my opinion. It may even make sense to make respecs free up until a certain level. Players are not getting tons of money early in the game, and they also will want to spend it on weapon upgrades, which are also prohibitively expensive for this point in the game. If you get into act 2 and are starting to feel like you want to redo your build, right now, you're just out of luck, guess you gotta make a new character.

Isn't this why there's an option to either vendor or DE the stuff you pick up? So you can get gold? I try to hold on a couple of thousand gold at all times, and then DE stuff after that.

Granted I'm not far into Act 2 yet, but the gold situation seems okay to me.

I agree. To respec 7 points before last boss in Act 2 i've had to farm same area over and over (including picking up magic/rare items), which overleveled me like hell and made respec even more expensive. I think up to level 65 respec should be way cheaper. Paying over 1k gold per point at level 30 is too much for people to figure out the game.

On the other note, game difficulty is pretty ok for veteran players but my brother was playing same build as me and he really struggles on last boss of act 1. His circle slam ability is really hard to dodge. he died 17 times to this boss which doubled his death count. It's not a bad build, just this boss is a bit too souls-like for some people.

Agreed. Really missing regret orbs compared to current gold costs.

I don't like how when i need to respec there's now this addded pressure to respec RIGHT NOW because it will only get more and more expensive as i level up.

during campaign, I farmed the ice witch in first zone (act 4) like 30 times to get gold.

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Meritre#5416 wrote:

Isn't this why there's an option to either vendor or DE the stuff you pick up? So you can get gold? I try to hold on a couple of thousand gold at all times, and then DE stuff after that.

Granted I'm not far into Act 2 yet, but the gold situation seems okay to me.

at higher levels it costs thousands of gold just to change ONE passive point.